Walt Disney’s Imagineers to Get Documentary in 2016

Leslie Iwerks, granddaughter of Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks, will direct the film

Disney plans to pull back the curtain on its Imagineers with a feature-length documentary that explores the history of the division behind the designs of its theme park rides and other attractions.

Leslie Iwerks, the daughter of Don Iwerks, a former Disney animator and Imagineer, and granddaughter of Ub Iwerks, co-creator of Mickey Mouse and Oswalt the Lucky Rabbit, is directing the project. She has previously helmed the documentaries “The Pixar Story,” released in 2007, and “Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible,” and “Recycled Life,” a documentary short that was nominated for an Academy Award.

Disney plans on releasing the film in 2016, after its new theme park in Shanghai, China has opened.